I'm sorry, too, for fear must have a fascination and I like unusual sensations." "Speaking of your commissions, how am I going to pay you--not for the sale you made, although I wouldn't have done as well, but for the loss you saved the firm and for the risk you ran ?" Gray felt a momentary desire to have done with pretense, to confess his true condition and to beg not only a suitable reward for his services, but also as large a loan as Coverly could spare.

It is hard to maintain an attitude of opulence on less than nothing; it would be so much easier to have done with this counterfeit gesture and trust to a straightforward appeal.

But he dared not yield to the impulse.
"You may give me anything you see fit," he declared, "and I sha'n't embarrass you by refusing.

On the contrary, go as strongly as you possibly can." Coverly actually appeared to be relieved at this statement, but he inquired, curiously: "What have you got up your sleeve?
You don't need money." "Obviously not.

But I know a needy object of charity; a worthy case, I assure you.